Reply #119: I'm still not seeing the utility [View All]

or cost effectiveness of not simply going to an ffl through NICS when/if I want to buy/sell a gun? Why go to the expense of tying it to your ID card or license. If that is what an individual state decides, to require some sort of ID on DL or a FOID card doesn't really matter. There simply are too many factions who would not allow this to happen.

It seems treated as a side issue in this thread, but the real live issue is that states have not taken any steps to control private sales before, when they were flush with gov. grants and property taxes. Now with states closing schools and cutting off funding for the indigent, states certainly aren't going to go to that expense. No system will be enacted forcing the states to do anything which will cost millions. They may be enticed if the feds required ffl dealers to conduct transfers for a low statutory fee, $20+/-, and the feds agree to hold the private seller harmless from civil or criminal actions if the gun is ever used illegally after the transfer. I think the NRA would endorse this as would most gun owners. The NICS system is already funded at the state (compliance with records) and federal level through operation of the system.